This Season of Strikes, By Dele Agekameh
Unions are pressure groups, and the classic role of pressure groups is to influence government policy and decision-making, in line with current realities, needs and possibilities. The months before general elections are always hectic for politicians, their staffers and other associated groups or individuals. However, nobody in this class bears…
Lagos and the Garbage Question, By Louis Odion
...a poor reading of the challenge at hand is to assume it ends with the now familiar unsightly spectacle of communal wheelie bins overflowing with rubbish at the street-corners or bulging bin bags dumped in the median of the highways. No less critical is the issue of industrial waste. After…
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Health Care Financing: the Doctor’s Perspective, By Tavershima Adongo
People should not have to travel over 50 kilometres to healthcare facilities and when they do get to these facilities they shouldn’t have to be turned back because they don’t have cash or there are no syringes or catheters to give at least first aid. Have you ever had the…
The NBA President’s Trial: I See No Attack On the Legal Profession, By J. S. Okutepa
We must stop whipping up sentiment. The legal profession is a noble one. It does not encourage conduct that aids or abets wrong. The charge I read does not attempt to regulate the fees The charge seems to question the propriety of a lawyer being paid from government coffers for…
Why the NBA President Must Resign, By Raymond Nkannebe
The principal issue is: Should the man not take a walk from his headship of the bar and attend to his trial? And how much reputational harm are we willing to inflict on such an exalted office as the presidency of the bar, on account of the interest of its…
The Fable of A Clone, A Clown and A Crown, By Banji Ojewale
Are the authorities and our president therefore helpless in the face of the clonists threatening to crowd us out? Not at all. If they admit it is a metaphorical referendum on their work in office for nearly four years, it may sober them up and rouse them from complacency. Out…
Channels TV and the Shame of Corporate Conceit, By Ken Tadaferua
• Onoshe Nwabuikwu ...if I were John Momoh and the management of Channels TV, an apology should be publicly tendered to Onoshe Nwabuikwu. It is the proper thing to do. I am truly mystified by the recent fierce hectoring and bullying of a broadcast media columnist, Onoshe Nwabuikwu, by Channels…
Connecting The Dots of Corruption: How Individual Greed Crippled Nigeria (2), By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
No sector is immune to corruption in Nigeria. The financial sector mirrors the larger society and given the ability of actors there to cook the books, its situation calls for more introspection. The banking sector is the facilitator of official corruption in Nigeria. The wealth of Nigeria is desperately tied…
A Global Anti-corruption Laurel for Nuhu Ribadu, By Chido Onumah
As head of EFCC between 2003 and early 2008, Mallam Ribadu put the organisation on the global anti-corruption map and left no one in doubt that he not only knows his onions when it comes tackling corruption but that he has the courage to boot. Many things prepared Mallam Ribadu…
Nigeria and the Question of “Leadership”, By Lande Omo Oba
We allow leaders to lead without holding them accountable for results. Then we have leaders who think that government is their family business and should be some sort of heirloom. Clearly our standards are so low, we don’t hold our leaders to anything. “To whom much is given, much is…
